The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1887-07-14

Cnas. btAng - renting the room
formerly used at the gun shop OF
Santa Fe Avenue, preparatory t.
opening Hp lunch room.
Prof. Cowgirl, Of the Kansas wes-
leSsn, is preparing to build 81, So
cottage on Highland avenue. G. q.
Wilmarth IL the architect.
Father Leary has returned home
from Salina, where he had been on
business connected with the Mount
st. Joseph cOllege.-AbileRo Gazette.
The poor old Herald tries 10 In
crease it's small weekly subscription
list by putting the price at a dollar
3 year. 1t finds few takers, even al
that price.
A law court is a mOnOtinOus iRstl-
tuition. 1t is sopOrific in its effects.
The judge slumbers while the busy
fly turns tae thrObbing, snoring nose
into a skating rink.
The city council has provided for
three additional policemen, but
have not agreed upon the salary.
This subject will probably come up
sc the next meeting.
The editor Of the Gypsum Valley
Echo refers to our esteemed eotem-
pOrary as ~. Mullethead Davis-the
Ismaelite Of the Kansas press. {"
Nothing like a middle name.
In the District court, in the case of
Eberwine V. HOlmqvist, judgment
was given the plaintiff for $40. The
case Of A. NJ. Stewart vs.. the Baptist
church is now being tried.
&C. WiImarth got data from one
Of the street car drivers which shows
thst his car travels seventy miles
per day. This being true, 2lO miles
per day is tFaversed by the three
cars. Who'd a thunk it,"
The beastly smell Of sluggish water
which penetrates the nOstrils as you
cross Iron avenue bridge is over
pOwering. II food could outcome
and wash these currents to the sea,
the city might be much healthier.
Mr.. l.. G. Stack has taken charge
Of the feed stable on Seventh street,
Jesse Frost retiring. Mr.. Stack has
lately moved here from Ohio, and IL
3 worthy gentleman in every respect,
aud we hope 70 see him successful
in his business experiments.
A. E, Ransom lost Friday after
noon, by inflammation Of the bowels,
his trOtting stallion, Brunswick
Chief" He was valued at 81 500,
and was known rs the best horse in
this part Of the state. II will be
long time before as good a horse can
be found TO take his place.
Fast driving on the streets is pro-
hlbited by ordinance. and yet is in
dulged in almost daily by some.
The worst feature OF the matter l.
the danger to ladies and children
who are on the streets, and care
ought to be exercised by drivers, o.
else they should be made 10 respect
the city laws.
Marshall Chace arrested one Frank
Carson, Thursday on a telegram
from q Mr.. Tompkins. Carson II
charged with stealing & tool chest
at MeCraeken, which he took over
TO DOrrance and then shipped here.
The owner, Mr.. Tompkins, arrived
last night and conveyed the prisoner
to Russell this morning.
A little girl by the name of Smith
fell in the river last Friday below
the dam. and fiOated down the
stream forty or fifty feet, when she
was rescued by Eli Hire. She was
pretty well exhausted with water but
was soon brought around all right.
Another warning for parents to
keep their children away from the
river.
Samuel ROthschild writes from
MinnetOnka Beach, MIMI, that
there is the place to spend the sum-
mer months. II you want to enjoy
He is catching bass and
piekerel that weigh six to eight
pounds, and is enjoying himself
immensely. When he returns his
brother Frank will probably spend
q few weeks at ManitOu, Col.
To be perfectly metropolitan our
proposed enlarged police force
should be uniformed. To be metro
pOlitan also, the policemen should
be HibeTnians, and there are not
enough Of that nationality IN the city
10 Ego round" Pay Coo Bond has
The brogue, and we suggest him for
Dne Of the number. "Trot out an
Dther chrome"
A newspaper cites a recent in
stance Of q MissOurian who saw q
snake seven feet long and made
racks out the State. Bro. Davis, Of |
he Herald, was lately at his old |
home az Albany, Mo-, and we not
ced be came home rather suddenly.
Prohibition in Kansas is quite
'evere and the reaction Is apt to be
sreat when q man revisits old Mis-
iouri.
Harry Mcconnell, the we'll
InOwn travelling man for n Chicago
ewelry house, is in the city, q guest
4 bis brOther-in-law, Frank Hage-
nan. 1t will be remembered that
IT. McCOnnell's two children
aimed considerable celebrity from
he fact that they were carried of in
cutter on . cold winters day in
auuaFy Is86. bv a lunatFe The